{"id":119897,"date":"2019-05-09T15:45:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T13:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=119897"},"modified":"2019-05-09T17:03:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:03:50","slug":"novak-into-madrid-quarters-faces-cilic-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/novak-into-madrid-quarters-faces-cilic-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Novak into Madrid quarters, faces Cilic next"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two-time former titlist Novak Djokovic came through against Jeremy Chardy 6-1, 7-6 (2) on Thursday to book his spot in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madrid-open.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mutua Madrid Open<\/a> quarter-finals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Novak raced to 4-0 in the opening set following two breaks of serve, and saved three consecutive break points before holding for insurmountable 5-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The second set was more competitive, as the Frenchman raised his level. Despite the tight contest, and having a break\/set point against him, the Serbian star forced a tie-break and went on to win it 7-2, maintaining his perfect 13-0 record against Chardy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;When I was set point down I just wanted to make the first serve. I went for his backhand and he missed the backhand return. I wasn&#8217;t really thinking about my (head-to-head) score in that moment,&#8221;<\/strong> said Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (4-3), double faults (2-1), winners (19-20), unforced errors (17-25), total points won (68-51).<\/p>\n<p>Novak is now 26-8 in the Spanish capital, where he is bidding to capture his 33rd ATP Masters 1000 trophy. He is going for his second title of the season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up for the world no.1 and top seed at the ATP Masters 1000 event will be ninth seed Marin Cilic (17-2) on Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Croat will play in his first quarter-final in Madrid, after a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 comeback victory over Laslo Djere of Serbia earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top seed beat world no.47 Jeremy Chardy 6-1, 7-6 (2) to book his spot in the Mutua Madrid Open last eight. He goes on to face no.9 seed Marin Cilic (H2H 17-2) on Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":119892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[101012177,101012203,101011267,101013053,1039],"class_list":["post-119897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-1000-en","tag-madrid-en","tag-masters-1000-en","tag-mutua-madrid-open-2019-en","tag-third-round"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119897"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120019,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119897\/revisions\/120019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}